Location | Carl Spitteler-Quai, Luzern |
Client | Remimag AG |
Commission | Study competition on invitation 2016 |
Architects | Graber & Steiger Architekten |
Consultants | Structural engineer: Beat Lauber |
The compact arrangement of the new building represents a dialectical water-based contrast to the unique characteristics of the elongated Lucerne Quai site. The building will be deliberately separated from the Quai edge and slightly positioned above the surface of the water, emphasising its connection to the lake and at the same time giving it an intermediary role between the town and landscape. While the top floor offers a casual front onto the expansive water surface, Alpine panorama and extensive waterside promenade with its alignment parallel to the Quai, the ground floor with its access footbridge and terrace bar emphasises its proximity to the nearby urban area and welcomes visitors. As a hybrid structure made from steel and wood with the accompanying material efficiency properties, the building reflects a structural relationship to boatbuilding, a relationship which extends beyond a striking figurative connection thanks to the functional tectonics. The static system is allocated core significance and is based on a desire for minimal contact with the lake bottom and a high degree of spatial flexibility, thereby conveying an expression of the buildings as a space-creating force. The unobtrusive iconography of the new building legible on the various floors meets public and private demands as well as local and international desires with its lively classic design.
As a part of “Adda Collective” we are selected to participate in the „Korail Residency 2024“, which is embedded in the “Korail City of Culture” initiative in Dhaka/Bangladsh.
The project „Korail City of Culture“, which focuses on Dhaka's largest informal settlement, is a sustainable urban development initiative supported by the Creative Economy Programme of the Federal Foreign Office in Germany, in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Bangladesh and its local counterpart, Paraa, and international partner, Floating e.V.. The project aims to support cultural practitioners and producers living, working, and playing in Korail in establishing sustainable cultural practices, and to feed this knowledge back into processes of global and local learning and teaching on sustainable urban development.
The projects and works that are developed during the Korail residency program shall be part of the „Maja-Kori“ Design Festival in and around Korail Basti in December 2024.
Adda Collective is a multidisciplinary and mutinational team formed around „Adda Space“ Dhaka/Bangladesh and Graber & Steiger Architects, Lucerne/Switzerland. For further information you may also check Instagram @grabersteiger @adda.dhaka.
Image: Goethe Institute Bangladesh